You Can Buy a Bible That Replaces "God" With "Kanye"

Has this ever happened to you? It’s Friday night and you’re doing what everyone does on Friday night. Namely, sitting at home, reading your bible, and drinking a glass of warm milk. Then suddenly you think to yourself, "Wait a minute! This is boring! I wish this bible were cooler!" Well worry no more, friend, because now there’s The Book of Yeezus.

The brainchild of a group of three brothers, The Book of Yeezus is a bound copy of Genesis, only every mention of "God" and "Yahweh" has been replaced with either "Kanye" or "Yeezus." So where it once said, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth... And God said, Let there be light: and there was light." It now says, "In the beginning Kanye created the heaven and the earth... And Kanye said, Let there be light: and there was light." Now as someone who was raised in strict Catholicism, I wouldn’t be able to look my parents or my childhood priest in the eye if I didn’t say this, so bear with me... This is absolutely hilarious. (What? I rebelled.)

On their Etsy page, where you can buy the book, the brothers claim the project is not meant to mock Kanye, nor is it meant to praise him. Rather they say their goal is to illuminate "the way cultural icons have come to be the contemporary spiritual figures in our information culture." Personally, I think their goal is to sell a lot of books to Kanye fans who rightfully will think this is an amazing and hysterically funny extension of Kanye’s carefully crafted persona. But sure, if they want to dress it up in anthropology speak, that’s cool too.

I, for one, will definitely be getting a copy, if just to hold me over until Kanye’s new album So Help Me God is released. Or should I say, So Help Me Kanye.